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Mampane, Ruth; Huddle, Christelle – South African Journal of Education, 2017
This study reports on the outcomes of educational psychology school-based intervention. The aim was to determine whether the intervention served as an educational pathway to resilience. Through a concurrent mixed-methods research design interpreted through a pragmatic lens, academic school performance of students in a rural school was used as an…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Intervention, Resilience (Psychology)
Sibley, Margaret H.; Morley, Candance; Rodriguez, Lourdes; Coxe, Stefany J.; Evans, Steven W.; Morsink, Sarah; Torres, Frank – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study evaluates a peer-delivered intervention for high school students with impairing ADHD symptoms targeting organization, time management, and planning (OTP) and motivation (Students Taking Responsibility and Initiative through Peer Enhanced Support; STRIPES). A mixed-methods open trial (study 1; N=18) and parallel group randomized…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Intervention, Peer Relationship
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Flannery, K. Brigid; Kato, Mimi McGrath; Kittelman, Angus; McIntosh, Kent; Triplett, Danielle – Grantee Submission, 2019
Although high school graduation rates are improving, a large number of students are still not successful. Research has documented that 9th grade is a pivotal year in determining whether a student will graduate or drop out. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to assess the effects of a Tier 1 intervention model (Freshmen Success)…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Intervention, Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness
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Keven-Akliman, Çigdem; Eryilmaz, Ali – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a body image group counselling program on adolescent girls in the context of Positive Psychology and Positive Psychotherapy. The sample set consisted of 22 female students, 11 in the experimental group and the other 11 in the control group, and they are all in the 9th grade and have negative…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Females, Group Therapy, Adolescents
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Vaughn, Sharon; Martinez, Leticia R.; Williams, Kelly J.; Miciak, Jeremy; Fall, Anna-Maria; Roberts, Greg – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study examined the effects of Reading Intervention for Adolescents, a 2-year extensive reading intervention targeting current and former English learners identified as struggling readers based on their performance on the state accountability assessment. Students who enrolled at three participating urban high schools were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Programs, Adolescents, Reading Difficulties
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Katajisto, Marjo; Uusiautti, Satu; Hyvärinen, Sanna – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This article reports findings from a study among 9th-graders who participated in a strengths-based intervention in two West-Finnish comprehensive schools. The intervention pursued to develop the students' psychological capital (PsyCap), awareness of their strengths, and experiences of student guidance. The following research question was set for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Intervention
Zhu, Pei; Garcia, Ivonne; Alonzo, Erick – MDRC, 2019
The growing awareness of the importance of the first year of high school for future success has prompted schools and districts across the country to develop interventions designed for ninth-graders. "Growth mindset" is an intervention that aims to increase students' desire to take on challenges and to enhance their persistence in school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Motivation, Intervention, Grade 9
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Irfan Arif, Muhammad; Mirza, Munawar S. – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
The major purpose of the study was to find out the effectiveness of an intervention programme in fostering academic resilience of non-resilient at-risk students at secondary school level. The programme based on a resilience building module for teachers was designed for this purpose. The module comprised of activity based sessions aiming at…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students
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Zahner, William; Pelaez, Kevin; Calleros, Ernesto – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
We describe results of a long-term design experiment focused on promoting mathematics learning among multilingual ninth graders classified as English Learners. The intervention at a linguistically diverse public high school in the US focused on a unit introducing concepts related to linear rates of change. We analyze results from a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Environment, Instructional Design, Multilingualism
Powers, Kristin; Mandal, Arpita – Contemporary School Psychology, 2011
Within the Response-to-Intervention framework, students who fail to profit from high-quality general education instruction, accommodations, and supplemental instruction progress to a more intensive intervention program, sometimes referred to as "Tier III." This article describes a problem-solving approach to designing such intensive, data-based,…
Descriptors: Intervention, General Education, Problem Solving, Supplementary Education
Bachelor, Robin L.; Vaughan, Patrick M.; Wall, Connie M. – Online Submission, 2012
This report describes a program for improving retention of essential concepts exhibited by junior high and high school students. The purpose of the study was to increase cognitive retention in order to increase student success. The target sample consisted of junior high students in the seventh grade and high school students in grades nine through…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Retention (Psychology), Fundamental Concepts, Intervention
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Banting, Nat; Simmt, Elaine – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
In this paper we frame our observations in enactivism, specifically problem posing, to propose the notion of problem drift as a method to analyze the curriculum generating actions of small group learning systems in relation to teacher interventions intended to trigger specific content goals. Teacher attentiveness to problem drift is suggested to…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Small Group Instruction, Intervention